Senior Software Engineers at Coupa design, develop, and maintain enterprise SaaS products, driving quality deliverables and mentoring junior team members.
Coupa makes margins multiply through its community-generated AI and industry-leading total spend management platform for businesses large and small. Coupa AI is informed by trillions of dollars of direct and indirect spend data across a global network of 10M+ buyers and suppliers. We empower you with the ability to predict, prescribe, and automate smarter, more profitable business decisions to improve operating margins.
Why join Coupa?
🔹 Pioneering Technology: At Coupa, we're at the forefront of innovation, leveraging the latest technology to empower our customers with greater efficiency and visibility in their spend.
🔹 Collaborative Culture: We value collaboration and teamwork, and our culture is driven by transparency, openness, and a shared commitment to excellence.
🔹 Global Impact: Join a company where your work has a global, measurable impact on our clients, the business, and each other.
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The impact of Sr. Software Engineer to Coupa:
Senior software engineers are the key contributor in complex projects and initiatives. They are responsible for quality software deliverables as per timeline. They work in a team with other engineers and own/drive development work. They are the proficient in programming languages and technology in use by the team. They often participate in investigating complex problems and drive resolution. Senior engineers work closely with other technical leaders/architects to provide robust solution.
What you'll do:
- Hands-on contributor in design and development of enterprise product
- Design, develop, maintain, and scale Coupa’s platform systems and services
- Participate in operational design and code review
- Architect and develop one or more major areas of Coupa's SaaS products
- Find creative, elegant and maintainable solutions to complex problems
- A good team player, works, and communicates well with others
- Advocate best practices (unit/automation testing, code reviews, code quality, etc.)
- Continually look for opportunities to improve our core applications, features, process and business
What you will bring to Coupa:
- 6+ years of software development experience (preferably with Ruby on Rails)
- Strong object-oriented design and analysis skills
- Experience building REST APIs and microservices
- Good understanding of common design patterns
- Experience with React.js (or similar Javascript framework) and CSS
- MySQL and general database knowledge, including performance and optimization
- Experience with technical mentoring or teaching others
Coupa complies with relevant laws and regulations regarding equal opportunity and offers a welcoming and inclusive work environment. Decisions related to hiring, compensation, training, or evaluating performance are made fairly, and we provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified candidates and employees.
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Top Skills
CSS
Microservices
MySQL
React
Rest Apis
Ruby On Rails
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